{"id":53292,"date":"2021-02-25T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=44fff3ab654d6e8500cd3b71d041ffaf"},"modified":"2021-02-25T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:46:36","slug":"decades-in-the-making-how-mainstream-conservatives-right-wing-money-fueled-the-capitol-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/decades-in-the-making-how-mainstream-conservatives-right-wing-money-fueled-the-capitol-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Decades in the Making&#8221;: How Mainstream Conservatives &amp; Right-Wing Money Fueled the Capitol Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/25\/brendan_oconnor_capitol_riot\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/73\/56773\/w320\/seg3-trump-capitol.jpg\" alt=\"Seg3 trump capitol\" \/><\/a><p>As more details emerge about those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, it&#8217;s becoming clearer that the insurrection was not the work of a &#8220;fringe&#8221; group, but rather the result of a decades-long conservative effort to undermine democracy, according to author Brendan O&#8217;Connor. &#8220;The events of January 6 were not just months, but years, decades, in the making,&#8221; says O&#8217;Connor, who notes that major Republican donors and prominent conservative groups were connected to the Trump rally that immediately preceded the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/25\/brendan_oconnor_capitol_riot\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more details emerge about those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, it&#8217;s becoming clearer that the insurrection was not the work of a &#8220;fringe&#8221; group, but rather the result of a decades-long conservative effort to undermine democracy, according to author Brendan O&#8217;Connor. &#8220;The events of January 6 were not just months, but years, decades, in the making,&#8221; says O&#8217;Connor, who notes that major Republican donors and prominent conservative groups were connected to the Trump rally that immediately preceded the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53293,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53292\/revisions\/53293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}